Privilege and narrative!! Welcome to a fact free society of feelings! Well, facts are allowed as long as they properly feed the narrative and keep the Ministry of Truth happy.

As nice as it is to hear about Debora's background maybe she should speak more to the thoughts and feelings of her constituents. I don't see what her families' (unclear if she means her family, probably not) experiences with the Puyallup judicial system have to do with building a state-of-the-art police bunker in Seattle.

Many of Juarez's constituents understand the need for a new precinct building in North Seattle but they are concerned about the scope of the project and the financial bite it will take. She seems unable to understand those concerns.

So we have plans and money for new police station and new prison for kids. Are there any plan and money to build new schools for the children of the 70,000 tech peeps who moved here in the last 6 years?

Maybe if the SPD would not act like the secret police when it comes to internal discipline and contract negotiations, they would get more respect and less distrust/revulsion.

Fantasyland, I know.

@4 nails it correctly.
I am in Dist 5.
I have no problem w/ better (?) location & more room for cops.
But $160 million?
WTF

@3
I don't think that is the issue.

@5, Tech peeps don't have that many kids so when you add in theirs, minus the ones that had to move because their parents aren't making tech peep money, and it's pretty much a wash.
...aaaaaanyway, yeah, we do have a lot of needs for stuff in this city (including more cops and a new cop shop) so we should look at the cost of this thing before moving forward, but move forward we must. ...just maybe a little scaled back so we can also pay some cops to work there.

What an enjoyable snap on whitesplainin' Mike.

@3 is it really public when the public isn't allowed in 90% of the building? I would call the Ranier beach community center a state of the art public building. Everyone can use it, it's beautiful, functional and cost $25mil to build. instead of building the police bunker we could build 6 brand spankin new community centers.

The "bunker" thing is goofy double-speak that distracts from the main issue - the preposterous price tag. It's no more or less secure than any other police station.

It doesn't look all that militarized to me, generic "open space" 21st century architecture. Do you really want your armed police working in an overly crowded depression factory?

Seems like bitching about the price tag is bitching about the price tag. But this isn't any less an investment in the neighborhood. You know you're going to build it. Might as well not act like it's the end of the world, cause the world can't end every day y'all.

@13
Wait a second!
Just don't question costs? As for justification? Even disagree w/ what needs to be built?

Fuck that

"I've had families dealing with bias of the judicial system and everything else that goes with it..." Like prosecutors and judges being in bed with cops? What a disappointment it is to learn that Juarez is a gung ho law and justice freak who shrugs off the mysterious way the budget for this Taj Mahalesque building doubled since 2014.